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A -- MARINE FIRE AND SAFETY RESEARCH SERVICES SOL DTCG39-96-R-E00093 DUE 011796 POC Contact Teri Snyder, Contract Specialist, 203-444-8242, FAX 203-444-8299 The U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center intends to enter into a four-step negotiated procurement in accordance with Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 215.613-70, Four-step Source Selection Procedures, resulting in a contract to perform research in the areas of fire science, fire protection engineering, toxicity, human factors, reliability, and risk assessment. This research will be conducted to support U.S. Coast Guard infrastructure, environmental protection, U.S. Merchant vessel safety, and international merchant vessel safety (via the International Maritime Organization). Estimated level of effort in labor hours over the five (5) year period of performance are as follows: Senior Technical Representative 1000, Senior Fire Protection Engineer 4000, Junior Fire Protection Engineer 12000, Senior Mechanical/Marine Engineer 3000, Junior Mechanical/Marine Engineer 6000, Industrial Hygienist 1000, Senior Human Factors Engineering Psychologist 1000, Junior Human Factors Engineering Psychologist 3000, Statistician 1000, Scientific Computer Programmer 3000, Technician 5000, Technical Writer/Editor 1000, Word Processor/Graphics 2000. The Government's four-step source selection procedures are as follows: Step 1: Evaluate technical proposals; conduct limited discussions with all offerors; and ask for any necessary clarifications and additional supporting data when necessary (normally, ask that this be submitted with the cost proposal). Step 2: Request cost proposals; evaluate all cost proposals, establish a competitive range; eliminate those proposal outside the range and advise those offerors; conduct limited discussions with remaining offerors; and eliminate proposals which cannot be made acceptable and advise the offerors. Step 3: Notify offerors of the common cut-off date for receipt of best and final offers (techincal and cost); evaluate the offers; select the best offeror; tell the selected source that the decision is conditional based on negotiation of a definitive contract within the time period prescribed by the source selection authority; and advise the other offeros of the source selected. Step 4: Negotiate the final contract price, terms, and conditions; and award the contract. Contract period of performance is five (5) years. A Cost Plus Fixed Fee, ID/IQ type contract is anticipated. The Standard Industrial Cost (SIC) for this solicitation is 8711. All requests for the solicitation must be in writing. Telephone requests will not be accepted. (0335)

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